Editorials

The questions are sometimes asked: What is the place or function of the denial of error in a Christian Science treatment? How much time and attention should be given to this phase of the work? It would be difficult to give any generalized procedure, for each case is individual, and the method used in treating a case depends largely on what is necessary to change the patient's belief from sickness to health and from sin to holiness. When the allness of God, divine Love, is sufficiently realized, there is no necessity for the argument, since Christ, Truth, naturally rebukes error and establishes the harmony of God's government.

Christian Scientists are monotheists in the highest sense. They see the Biblical statement "The Lord our God is one Lord" Deut.

Church building has always found devotion in people who have caught a glimpse of God as one invisible Spirit and have felt responsible for protecting and disseminating what they have discerned. We might follow the historical record of church building from the tabernacle, the tent of Moses, to the Christian Science Church Center in Boston, and we would always find the implication of a place where God meets a congregation of worshipers.

Our radio set is receptive to a program only when it is tuned to the wavelength of the broadcasting transmitter. Otherwise, as far as we are concerned, both the transmitter and the program could be nonexistent.

In the coming of the Saviour, Christ Jesus, we have an example of the resistance of mortal mind to the Christ as it appears in its healing mission. Upon hearing of the divine event Herod plotted to kill the infant Jesus so that nothing could challenge his sovereignty.

Christian Science stands firmly on the basis that God is the only Mind and that the divine Mind is All. But in order to explain the appearance of an evil mind and many minds, Mary Baker Eddy employs the terms "mortal mind" and "human mind.

Self-denial has never been a very popular or attractive phase of religious teaching. Yet one of the basic statements of Christ Jesus is: "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Expectancy of good promotes the experience of good. Because human existence is a mental phenomenon, it is formed and shaped by human thought.

Christ Jesus declared, "The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. " John 14:10; The great Teacher knew that power to heal belongs to God, to Spirit, Mind, and so is infinite and equal to any demand.

Christian Science imparts a wonderfully satisfying sense of the love of God, of His all-inclusive presence and power. When our perception of this Science is clear, we find joy and fulfillment in the contemplation of our real being in and of the one creative Mind.